Some things can’t be believed until experienced. Since I grew up in Mississippi and have spent the past 18 years in Louisiana, I thought I was prepared for the heat of the equator in July. I was wrong ...

TROY, Ala. — Ralph Waldo Emerson said “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.” Joe Todd of Todd Farms in Dothan said "Amen" to that. The seventh-generation syrup-maker ...

Ben LeBlanc, the manager of Lafourche Sugar, is the representation of a new breed of sugar millers. He said he was attracted to the sugar-cane industry, not because it was in his blood (his father was ...

"It's the most reliable, and it's been proven for 120 years," Jim Sneesby said. And as fires start to light up the horizon, the sugar season will begin at the Harwood Mill from June 10, and it's all ...